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Cal Poly FPE Program Continues to Flourish

The Fire Protection Engineering (FPE)
Program at Cal Poly is pleased to announce that the first three
full-time students in its MS degree program are scheduled to graduate
this March. All three already have employment agreements in place. Mark
Ferraresi has already started working for Hughes Associates, Inc. Will
Fletcher plans to work at Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corp., and
David Phillips will be working at RJA Group.

Fletcher and Phillips had both been
awarded Honeywell Life Safety scholarships. Ferraresi had been awarded
scholarships from the Greater Atlanta and Northern California/Nevada
chapters of SFPE. The Greater Atlanta chapter also granted a scholarship
to first-year student Laura Radle.

In other Cal Poly news, Professor
Christopher Pascual is working on a 2-year grant from the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission to develop the FPE 501 course on Fundamental
Thermal Sciences. Professors Lonny Simonian and Thomas Korman have
received a grant from the Fire Protection Research Foundation to perform
a gap analysis related to the Smart Grid and the National Electrical
Code.